Linksys SE2800 8 Port Gigabit Network Switch Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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930 words · ~4 min read
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today's unboxing is an eight Port gigabit switch from linkis and since
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pretty much you know everyone knows you know
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what links this is and what their value at is and since you know everyone pretty
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much uh knows that there's not a whole lot of variation when it comes from
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switch to switch and other than basic Al power consumption and reliability I'm
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just going to talk about more than anything else what you really need a
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switch for so first of all let's see what lyus has to say for themselves
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plugin play I certainly hope so 8 gbit
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ports okay up to 10 times faster yes than 1000 and qos enabled okay that's
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kind of neat and power savings so yes this is more of a like a green smart
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power switch so smart power for short cable runs uh which basically turns down
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the transmission power when it detects a short cable and auto power down disables
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unused Port so that does help you consume less energy with your switch
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than you otherwise would Port status switch gives you control over LED lights
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neat okay Auto sensing ports work with 1 100 networks they better and you get
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award-winning 24/7 support for the first 90 days so if you plug in your switch
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and you're having trouble with it at least there's someone to call other than
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me you can call Cisco and they can help you you'd be surprised how many people
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like message me me and ask me like stuff like you know my switch isn't working
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what do I do and I'm like I don't know man I don't know your network I don't
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know like what you're trying to do I don't know what kind of switch you
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have yeah anyway comes with a power cord
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comes with this quick start guide comes with a product information
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thing yeah I guess I wasn't really expecting much more to be included with
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this it's uh so what do you need a switch for so a switch is basically a
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way of splitting in a more intelligent
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manner a network connection so um I here perfect example is right
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here actually my okay my main Network Hub is in the other room so like one
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room over there and uh what I have there is I have my modem from Shaw then I have
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my router which has four ports and then I have a switch and that switch plugs
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into the power line kit that's going downstairs it plugs into the two
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computers that are in that room I have a spare coming off when I need to plug
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something in temporarily I have one that goes into the room on this side for my
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Windows Home Server and I have one that comes actually here check this up right
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over here I have one that comes in through the wall Very elegantly by the
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way that runs to this wireless router
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right here now I'm no longer using this for its wireless capability I've
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actually turned off the routing and turned off the wireless and I'm just using it as a switch because it's a four
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port switch so that way I have one incoming I have one going out to the
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test bench and then I have one going out to my work laptop whenever I'm doing
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work work from home uh in this room so that's what a switch does you basically
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take one gigabit backbone and then you run that out to a bunch of other gigabit
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things so the way that these computers or devices are going to communicate with
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each other is let's say your your uh connection to the main Network your main
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gigabit network is through one that means that computer plugged into a
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computer plugged into Port two can communicate via gigabit to that Network
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however if you have three computers in ports 2 three and four and they all need
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to communicate with something on the other side so through here then you're
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going to be limited to Total gigabit speed with three so that is sort of
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theoretical 333 megabits per second however computer 2 could talk to
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computer 4 at full gigabit speed so what you're doing is you're you're creating
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like a sort of a a sub gigabit Network that then has one gigabit link to the
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rest of your in theory fully gigabit Network okay so this is the se2800 it is
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a pretty plain looking little box it's got a Cisco logo on the front it's got
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some ventilation holes all the way around the outside of the chassis it's
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got a power indicator as well as power in and the ability to turn the lights on
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and off in theory okay it's got eight ports these are all gigabit as I've
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covered several times so far and it has ventilation on the bottom so we got
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little feet here so that it sits a little bit off the table or floor or
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wherever you put it and then you're going to have natural convection drawing
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air through the bottom and then out the side so thank you for checking out my
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